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1 5.. 5 steps to a . 500. AP English literature Questions to know by test day Also in the 5 STEPS Series: 5 steps to a 5: AP English literature 5 steps to a 5: AP English literature with CD-ROM. Also in the 500 AP Questions to Know by Test Day series: 5 steps to a 5: 500 AP Biology Questions to Know by Test Day 5 steps to a 5: 500 AP English Language Questions to Know by Test Day 5 steps to a 5: 500 AP Psychology Questions to Know by Test Day 5 steps to a 5: 500 AP History Questions to Know by Test Day 5 steps to a 5: 500 AP World History Questions to Know by Test Day 5.. 5 steps to a . 500. AP English literature Questions to know by test day Shveta Verma Miller New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto SHVETA VERMA MILLER has taught English literature and English as a foreign language at the high school and college level in the United States, England, India, Japan, and China.

2 Prior to that, she taught SAT preparation with both the Princeton Review and Kaplan. She has a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in modern literature from the University of London, England. Copyright 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-175411-8. MHID: 0-07-175411-3. The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-175410-1, MHID: 0-07-175410-5. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.

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6 McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed through the work. Under no circumstances shall McGraw-Hill and/or its licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or similar damages that result from the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This limitation of liability shall apply to any claim or cause whatsoever whether such claim or cause arises in contract, tort or otherwise. CONTENTS. Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Chapter 1 British Poetry 1. Thomas Hardy, Nobody Comes 1. Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 3. Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur 6. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress 9. William Wordsworth, The world is too much with us 12.

7 William Butler Yeats, That the Night Come 14. Chapter 2 American Poetry 17. Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book 17. Emily Dickinson, Success is counted sweetest .. 19. T. S. Eliot, Morning at the Window 21. Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! 23. William Carlos Williams, Contemporania 26. Chapter 3 World Poetry 29. Kahlil Gibran, Defeat 29. Jayadeva, Excerpt from Gita Govinda 31. Rabindranath Tagore, My Country Awake and The Home 36. Chapter 4 British Fiction 41. Frances Burney, Evelina 41. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (two passages) 43. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (two passages) 50. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 57. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 62. Chapter 5 American Fiction 67. Kate Chopin, The Kiss 67. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (two passages) 70. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw 76.

8 Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (two passages) 79. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle 84. v vi Contents Chapter 6 World Fiction 89. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote 89. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment 92. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary 95. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha 98. James Joyce, The Dead 101. Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis 104. Chapter 7 Drama 107. Euripides, Medea (two passages) 107. William Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth 112. Sophocles, Oedipus the King 118. Chapter 8 Expository Prose 123. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species 123. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Custom House . (Preface to The Scarlet Letter) 126. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 128. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Translated by Helen Zimmern) 132. Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 135. Zhuangzi 137. Answers 141. PREFACE. Even though students have been enrolling in AP English literature classes and taking the AP exam for decades, there is a noticeable shortage of multiple-choice practice and guides in the test prep world.

9 This book is intended to complement a test-prep curriculum guidebook like McGraw-Hill's 5 steps to a 5: AP English Lit- erature, which provides extensive instruction on the content covered in the exam, including terms, concepts, writing skills, and some multiple-choice practice. 5 steps to a 5: 500 AP English literature Questions to Know by Test Day, however, is unique and essential in that it provides extensive practice for the multiple-choice section alone, which comprises 45 percent of the total AP exam score. The book provides 500 practice questions and detailed answer explanations. The questions are compa- rable to those found on the AP exam, covering similar content and genres. This book is intended for students to use to prepare for the AP exam indepen- dently, in addition to the preparation they may be doing in an actual AP Eng- lish literature classroom.

10 The book is also useful for teachers to use in their AP. and non-AP classrooms for extra practice and assessment. Students who do not intend to take the AP exam can still benefit from using this book because the passages, questions, and answer explanations will train any student of literature how to develop a subtle and insightful appreciation for and understanding of the technique, form, style, and purpose of complex literary texts, all skills necessary for the reading comprehension section of the SAT and other standardized exams in reading comprehension. How to Use This Book The book is divided into eight chapters that are categorized by geographic region and genre. The multiple-choice questions for the AP exam in English literature consist mostly of fiction and poetry. Of the fiction passages, most passages are taken from novels and short stories, while occasionally a passage from a play or even expository prose (excerpts from essays, prefaces, etc.)